May15

SharePointUrlChanger

Categories: Tools and Utilites
Buddy of mine (Scott Helm) created a nifty utility for SharePoint that allows you to change url strings in a publishing web.  Cool stuff Scott! SharePointUrlChanger - Home out on CodePlex. Project Description This is a utility that I created to...
 
May15

Change Name of Server in MOSS Farm

Categories: Admin
Change alternate access mappings in Central Administration Central Administration > Operations > Alternate access Mappings Edit each mapping so that it reflects your new server name Ensure port numbers are the same Use stsadm renamese...
 
May13

Stsadm commands - Posters

Categories: General
The SharePoint User Assistance team has put together some posters of the stsadm command line parameters.  Not a bad thing to hang over the desk! Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Posters for SharePoint Stsadm command line pa...
 
May8

Attaching this database requires upgrade

Categories: Errors
Recently I was onsite with a client trying to recover their WSS 3.0 environment that they completely lost (post coming on that later).  During the recovery process I needed to add a content database back to their installation but received the foll...
 
May8

Setting up Live Writer to Blog on Weblogs.asp.net

Categories: Miscellaneous
Joe Stagner has a great post on how to set up Live Writer to blog at asp.net's weblogs.  I like a lot of Live's tools, so going to start using this for blogging my posts.  (Mainly so I have a better system of managing my drafts). Setting up Live Wri...
 
May8

SQL Script to attach a database

Categories: SQL Server
note: this script detaches it first   EXEC sp_detach_db @dbname = 'dbnametoattach' EXEC sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname = 'dbnametoattach', @physname = 'c:\yourdirectory\dbnametoattach.mdf'   - Dan Lewis...
 
May1

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Categories: News
The SharePoint product team has released the first version of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit which is supported on MOSS and WSS.  I was surprised that it didn't have that many initial tools- but the ones it does have are super sweet...